I just finished presenting at the TDWI “Cool BI” Forum in Chicago this week.  I had an interesting conversation after my presentation about identifying where to look for big data opportunities within one’s organization.  I’m a big advocate of starting with the annual report, and I’ll use this blog to discuss 1) where to look in the

This is the third in the series of four blogs that I’m writing on the “Big Data MBA.”  My first blog, “Big Data MBA: Course 101A,” covered the use of the “Big Data Worksheet” as a business valuation technique to help your line of business (LOB) users envision where and how big data analytics can

I recently had the opportunity to present at the Strata conference in Santa Clara.  I was part of the JumpStart program, which was positioned as an MBA track for Big Data Scientists.  The title of my session was “Do it Right – Proven Techniques for Exploiting Big Data Analytics” (a link to a pdf of

Technology is in a constant state of flux. It is continually reshaping our professional world. It is changing the way we interact. It is shaping the way we think about our customer. It is enabling us to process data at a pace that was not possible as recently as five years ago. These changes—coupled with

Given my Business Intelligence (BI) background (3 years at Business Objects as the head of their Analytic Applications business unit), I’m naturally drawn to conversations about how the world of big data is going to impact the BI world.  Now, the BI world has been taking quite a beating lately as the excitement surrounding the